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rough the Internet. The majority of these agents sells both its postpaid and prepaid products and services. The company also utilizes national retailers, such as Best Buy, Wal-Mart, RadioShack, and Target, to sell its postpaid and prepaid wireless products and services. Stores, such as Dollar General and various drugstore chains sell its prepaid products and services. Competition The company competes against other national wireless service providers, including AT&T Inc., Sprint Nextel Corporation, and T-Mobile USA, Inc., as well as various regional wireless service providers, including US Cellular, Metro PCS, and Leap Wireless. WIRELINE This segment provides communications products and services, including local exchange and long distance voice service, broadband video and data, IP network services, network access, and other services to consumers, small businesses, and carriers in the United States, as well as to businesses and government customers both in the United States and in approximately 150 other countries worldwide. Wireline Service and Product Offerings The company organizes its service and product offerings by the primary market targeted by these offerings – mass markets, global enterprise, global wholesale, and other. During 2012, the company acquired HUGHES Telematics, Inc. (HUGHES Telematics). The acquisition has accelerated its ability to bring telematics offerings to market for existing and new HUGHES Telematics and the company’s customers. The company improved its offerings of cloud services by acquiring Terremark Worldwide Inc., a global provider of information technology infrastructure and cloud services, and by acquiring a provider of cloud software technology. Mass Markets Mass Markets operations provide local exchange (basic service and end-user access) and long distance (including regional toll) voice services, broadband services (including high-speed Internet, FiOS Internet, and FiOS Video services) to residential and small business subscribers. Video Services: The company offers video service through its fiber-optic network. As of December 31, 2012, FiOS Video is available to approximately 14.2 million homes across 12 states, as well as the District of Columbia. Flex View: With Flex View, FiOS customers could watch content anytime, anywhere, on any device. Customers who subscribe to FiOS Video and Internet also have the ability to upload their photos, music, and videos to their personal Flex View Library, which gives them access to this content through any data-capable device. The company’s HBO GO offering provides customers with unlimited access to HBO programming on any data-capable device. The company’s FiOS Video subscribers could also access Turner Broadcasting’s online programming directly on the TBS and TNT sites and through Verizon FiOS Video Online. In addition, through FiOS TV Widgets, viewers have one-touch, on demand access to local weather, traffic and community information, and social media applications, such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, as well as online commerce opportunities. Customer Premise Equipment Interoperability: The company partners with major corporations, such as Microsoft and Apple to offer further interoperability with various products, such as the Xbox, smart televisions, and iPads. This technology further expands its initiative to provide customers with the ability to watch content anytime, anywhere, on any data-capable device. In 2012, the company entered into a venture with Redbox Automated Retail, LLC (Redbox), a subsidiary of Coinstar, Inc., to offer customers nationwide access to media rentals through online and mobile content streaming, as well as physical media rentals through Redbox kiosks. The company holds a 65% majority ownership share in the venture and Redbox holds a 35% ownership share. In 2012, the venture introduced its product portfolio, which includes subscription services, under the name Redbox Instant by the company. Data Services: The company offers high-speed Internet and FiOS broadband data products with varying downstream and upstream processing speeds, including FiOS Quantum. With FiOS Quantum